{"id":1489,"date":"2008-12-30T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:01:35","slug":"kiss-kiss-bang-bang-2005-shane-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1489","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this on Videodrome’s Christmas shelf and couldn’t resist. Completely fun movie with Robert Downey Jr. as a thief playing actor playing detective and Val Kilmer as a gay detective playing acting coach. It’s an action-comedy with snappy dialogue, but since those were way out of fashion in 2005, it’s a meta-action-comedy with snappy dialogue, featuring pauses and rewinds and lots of narration and self-conscious movie-cliche jokes. Somehow this all works and doesn’t annoy the shit out of me, which is what I’d imagine it would do if I were reading this instead of watching the movie.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Downey gets the girl (Michelle Monaghan of Mission Impossible III<\/a><\/em>) and they collectively take out the bad rich guy (Corbin Bernsen!) and his henchmen (incl. Dash “Doll in Thin Red Line<\/em>” Mihok and Shannyn “One Missed Call<\/em> Remake” Sossamon). Katy liked it but didn’t think Val Kilmer was a very convincing gay detective.<\/p>\n

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\nApril 2025:<\/strong> Watched again (RIP Val) by myself, cackling aloud for 100 minutes, how could Katy stand to watch this with me? I don’t think it’s Kilmer’s fault that Downey ran away with the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found this on Videodrome’s Christmas shelf and couldn’t resist. Completely fun movie with Robert Downey Jr. as a thief playing actor playing detective and Val Kilmer as a gay detective playing acting coach. It’s an action-comedy with snappy dialogue, but since those were way out of fashion in 2005, it’s a meta-action-comedy with snappy dialogue, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,155,375,778],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-christmas","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-shane-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17516,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/17516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}